RobertBrowning-HomeThoughtsfromAbroad诗歌赏析分析.pptxVIP

Robert Browning Home-Thoughts,from Abroad CONTENTS 目录 Robert Browning Born:May 7th,1812 in London Died:December 12th, 1889 in Venice Poet and dramatist Best known as: one of the foremost 19th century (Victorian) British Poets Greatest contribution to English poetry:dramatic monologue(戏剧独白诗) Dispute with: Alfred Tennyson Influenced by:Percy Bysshe Shelley Wife:Elizabeth Barrett Browning Works Pauline (1833)《波林》 Paracelsus (1835)《巴拉塞尔士》 Strafford (1837) 《斯特拉福》 Pippa Passes (1841) 《比芭之歌》 Dramatic Lyrics (1842) 《戏剧抒情诗》 My Last Duchess (1842) 《我已故的公爵夫人》 Bells and Pomegranates (1841-1846) 《铃铛与石榴》 Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845) 《喜剧罗曼史和抒情诗》 Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (1845) 《异域思乡》 Men and Women (1855) 《男人和女人》 Dramatis Personae (1864) 《戏剧人物》 The Ring and the Book (1868) 《指环与书》 Background Home-Thoughts,from Abroad is Robert Brownings most prestigious short lyric poem written in Italy in 1845. He was living in Italy at that time, but his hometown was in England, which was his dreaming place. It described a typical scene in the English countryside in the poets memory when he saw the coming spring of Italy. Analysis Oh, to be in England Now that Aprils there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England—now! A B A B C C D D Rhyme Scheme Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Trimeter Alliteration Visual images Auditive image The metrical pattern and the rhyme scheme give it a sort of rising and falling sense that mirrors the emotional rise and fall of the poems central theme:the burst of joy at thinking of home,then the resignation that home lies so far away. Enjambment 跨行句 And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows! Hark! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent sprays edge— Thats the wise thrush; he